Slides - systor 2016

SYSTOR Steering Committee
Michael Factor, SC Chair, IBM Research
Ethan Miller, University of California Santa Cruz
Dalit Naor, IBM Research
Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University
Dan Tsafrir, Technion
Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University
Welcome to
th
9
The
ACM International
Systems and Storage Conference
June 6 – 8, 2016
Announcing SYSTOR 2017
SYSTOR 2017
The 10th ACM International
Systems and Storage Conference
May 22 – 24
IBM Haifa site auditorium
SYSTOR 2017 Chairs
 Dates:
‒ May 22-24 2017
 Program Chairs:
‒ Peter Desnoyers, College of Computer and
Information Science, Northeastern University
‒ Eyal de Lara, Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Toronto
 General Chair:
‒ Doron Chen, IBM Research
Welcome to SYSTOR 2016
General Chair
Katherine Barabash
IBM Research – Haifa
SYSTOR 2016
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Thank you to our sponsors
Thank you to the 2016 team
Publicity Chair
Joel Nider
IBM Research – Haifa
also, a Beer Chair 
Thank you to the 2016 team
Publication Chair
Gala Yadgar
Technion
Proceedings will soon be available in the
Thank you to the 2016 team
Posters Chair
Anna Levin
IBM Research – Haifa
http://www.systor.org/2016/poster.html
Thank you to the 2016 team
Local Organization
Chair
Eti Jahr
IBM Research – Haifa
Thank you to the 2016 team
Communications Team
 Chani Sacharen
 Yair Harry
 Tamar Dekel
Thank you to the attendees
Geography
75% of the registrations are from Israel
Academia vs Industry
40% of the registrations are from academia
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Don’t miss the social events
Don’t miss the social events
Welcome the Program Chairs
Program chairs:
Mark Silberstein (Technion)
Emmett Witchel (UT Austin)
The Program Committee
PC chairs:
Mark Silberstein (Technion)
Emmett Witchel (UT Austin)
Vikram S. Adve (University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign)
Mahesh Balakrishnan (Yale University)
Stephen Bates (PMC-Sierra)
Edward Bortnikov (YAHOO! Research)
Bjorn Brandenburg (MPI)
Anat Bremler-Barr (Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya)
Yuval Cassuto (Technion)
Allen Clement (Google)
Frank Dabek (Google)
Peter Druschel (MPI)
Isaac Gelado (NVIDIA)
Andreas Haeberlen (University of Pennsylvania)
Dean Hildebrand (IBM Research)
Hank Hoffmann (University of Chicago)
Kirill Kogan (IMDEA Networks Institute)
Alex Kogan (Oracle)
Michael Kaminsky (Intel Labs)
Manos Kapritsos (Microsoft Research)
Taesoo Kim (Georgia Tech)
Gabriel Kliot (Google)
Rama Kotla (Amazon)
Scott Mahlke (University of Michigan)
Changwoo Min (Georgia Tech)
Dmitri Perelman (Facebook)
Donald E. Porter (Stony Brook University)
Robbert Van Rennesse (Cornell University)
Christopher J. Rossbach (VMware Research)
Larry Rudolph (Two Sigma Investments)
Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Bianca Schroeder (University of Toronto)
Xi Wang (University of Washington)
Yang Wang (Ohio State University)
Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University)
Yaron Weinsberg (IBM Research)
David Wolinsky (Facebook) Rama Kotla (Amazon)
Review process
 Submitted 43 Full, 6 Short papers
 35 PC members, 193 reviews
 Most papers received 4 reviews, all received at least 3, and at least
one with high expertise
 Additional expert reviews were solicited to make the final decision
 Consensus was achieved for each paper though 4 days of online
discussion
 Accepted 14 Full, 2 Short papers accepted (32%)
Accepted papers statistics
Geography
75% of Accepted papers from outside of Israel
Academia vs Industry
Accepted papers 87% academia
Highlight papers
 Papers recently presented by Israeli researchers in top
international forums – SIGCOMM, VLDB, USENIX Security,
ASPLOS, IPSN, PLDI
 PC chairs selected 7 highlight papers out of 15 submitted
 Criteria – relevance and program diversity

Scheduled together with regular presentations to
complement the sessions
Best Papers
The PC has selected
The 2016 Best Paper
and
Two 2016 Best Student Papers
Best paper award
Health-Binning: Maximizing the Performance and
the Endurance of Consumer-Level NAND Flash
Roman Pletka and Saša Tomić
IBM Research – Zurich
Best student paper award
SSD Failures in Datacenters:
What? When? And Why?
Iyswarya Narayanan (Pennsylvania State University), Di Wang,
Myeongjae Jeon, Bikash Sharma, Laura Caulfield (Microsoft),
Anand Sivasubramaniam (Pennsylvania State University), Ben
Cutler, Jie Liu, Badriddine Khessib, and Kushagra Vaid
(Microsoft)
Best student paper award
Enabling Space Elasticity in
Storage Systems
Helgi Sigurbjarnarson (University of Washington),
Petur O. Ragnarsson (Reykjavik University),
Juncheng Yang (Emory University),
Ymir Vigfusson (Emory University, Reykjavik University),
and Mahesh Balakrishnan (Yale University)
Best Poster
 Best poster will be selected
at the poster session
 Based on your votes
 The voting page is inside
your conference folder
Keynote talks
Monday June 6, 2016
A Taxonomy of Non-Success
Eddie Kohler (Harvard)
Keynote talks
Tuesday June 07, 2016
Collective Authorities: Securely
Decentralizing Trust at Scale
Bryan Ford (EPFL)
Keynote talks
Wednesday June 08, 2016
Safeguarding Users' Sensitive
Data in the Cloud and the
Browser
Brad Karp (University College London)
Ready to begin
To put your phones on
silence!